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From: elton@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Bracy H. Elton)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Footnotes to captions in floating figures/tables in LaTeX:  How?
Keywords: footnotes, \caption[]{...}, figures, tables, LaTeX
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Date: 23 Aug 90 03:44:19 GMT
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Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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What I'd like to do:  Include footnotes in the \caption[]{} LaTeX
command in the figure and table environments.  The text of the
footnote should appear in the footer to the page on which the floated
figure or table appears.  I would use the optional argument to
\caption to avoid having the caption footnoted in the list of
figures/tables.

Question:  Can this be done?  And if so, how?

I have tried using varying combinations of the \footnote{}, \footnotemark{},
and \footnotetext{} commands to no avail.  I tried placing the \footnotetext{}
command both inside and outside the \caption{} argument.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.  Thank you.  --Bracy

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Bracy H. Elton                         | elton@lll-crg.llnl.gov
Dept. of Applied Science               |
University of California, Davis        | (415) 423-7262
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